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MM FITNESS PROGRAM SUMMARY: Our Cardiac Rehabilitation Program can help strengthen your heart, reduce the risks of a future heart attack, and return you as quickly as possible to your normal daily activities. Studies show “aerobic exercise training programs can reduce stress and depression and promote decreases in body weight and fat stores, blood pressure (particularly among hypertensive individuals), total blood cholesterol, serum triglycerides, LDL, and increase HDL lipoprotein. Considerable data now strongly supports the role of aerobic fitness and regular physical activity in improving both glucose and insulin homeostasis” according to The American College of Sports Medicine. You will need your doctor’s approval to get started in our Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Estimated time to complete the program is 3-6 months. PROGRAM OUTLINE: I. Initial Exercise Training Stage (Estimated Time: 1-8 weeks) A thorough review of your health history, including any physical or medical limitations and your concerns about participating in an exercise program after a cardiac complication is the first step of the program. Based on this assessment, a safe and effective exercise program is created to meet your individual needs and you will progress with the program as you and your body are ready. Your exercise program will include cardiovascular exercises to strengthen your heart and prolong your endurance, resistance band exercises to tone your muscles and ease the workload on your heart as you return to more strenuous everyday activities, and flexibility exercises to promote improved range of motion and fluid movement. You will have specific goals to attain before advancing to the next level. Cost for Stage I: $240 per month for (4) 30 Minute Sessions $480 per month for (8) 30 Minute Sessions $720 per month for (12) 30 Minute Sessions II. Improvement Exercise Training Stage (Estimated Time: 8-16 Weeks) Your exercise program is continually monitored throughout each stage of the program to ensure you are progressing accordingly. However the progressions made in this phase are quite significant compared to other phases especially in the areas of time, intensity, frequency, and modes of exercise. You will be encouraged to engage in multiple activities to promote total physical conditioning and the majority of your cardiovascular program in this phase will be turned over to you to work on independently. Sessions will focus more on strength training and flexibility at this time as well as addressing behaviors that lead to disease progression, specifically targeting those behaviors related to tobacco use, nutrition, stress, and control of metabolic disorders such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, and obesity. Extensive evidence exists that optimal management of these lifestyle behaviors and metabolic disorders results in stabilization and possible regression of the atherosclerotic process. You will have specific goals to attain before advancing to the next level. Cost for Stage II: $300 per month for (4) 45 Minute Sessions $600 per month for (8) 45 Minute Sessions $900 per month for (12) 45 Minute Sessions III. Maintenance Exercise Training Stage (Estimated Time: 16-24 Weeks) Practice makes perfect in this stage. By now you are comfortable with your exercise program and have learned that you can trust your body to perform for you in ways that you might not have even before your cardiac event. The gains are smaller in this stage but exercise, eating healthy, staying hydrated, and adequate amounts of rest are now a way of life. There is as much accountability as you need in this stage but our goals for you are enhanced self-sufficiency, feelings of well being and complete accomplishment. New exercises are introduced at every stage but especially in this last stage. Your body is asking for a challenge and wants to explore all the things it is able to do. Participants begin asking for exercise programs to get them back to their passions, hobbies and special interests in life that have been pushed aside.. When you arrive here, you are ready to graduate! Cost for Stage III: $300 per month for (4) 45 Minute Sessions $600 per month for (8) 45 Minute Sessions $900 per month for (12) 45 Minute Sessions |